mufg2026

The three Japanese megabanks — MUFG, SMBC, and Mizuho — have officially finalized an agreement for the joint issuance of a yen-backed stablecoin by the end of the 2026 fiscal year (March 2027) on the regulated Progmat platform. Following a strong recommendation from the Financial Services Agency (FSA), which will coordinate pilot tests starting in late 2025, these banking giants have opted out of launching competing coins in favor of a standardized token that will be deployed on public blockchains (including Ethereum and Avalanche) for seamless B2B settlements of Mitsubishi Corp.

The creation of such a sovereign banking derivative under FSA oversight effectively blocks the expansion of offshore dollar giants like USDT/USDC within Japan's corporate sector, which has a total pool of 300,000 clients. For the crypto market, this is a powerful long-term signal of TradFi's shift from speculation to real tokenization of trillion-dollar commercial clearing flows, fundamentally bolstering the infrastructural significance of the underlying EVM networks.

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